I’m having issues with my laptop. First, it got stuck downloading my pictures from my camera, then it wouldn’t let me process anything in Photoshop without the computer locking up. So, I did a disk clean-up and a defrag (which took almost 10 hours to do its thing). I am hoping that tonight it will behave and let me get the pictures processed and uploaded.

One thing of which I didn’t get pictures, so I can talk about it separately, was my trip to the Wool Room at the sheep barn (Blue Ribbon Pavilion). I have been able to find some great fleeces to purchase there in the past and I wanted to see what was for sale there this year. Most of the fleeces I looked at had way too much VM for me to even consider. One had a bad case of scurf, which made it completely unacceptable. One was a deep black, Shetland lamb fleece with no VM in it. I pulled a lock off to strength test it and it snapped in two with hardly a tug. I dug through it and tested another lock. Same thing. I have never seen such a brittle fleece. It was too bad because there wasn’t a white bit in it and it was a good, true black. I was heart-broken for the owners of it because it was good only for mulch.

So, I bought no fleeces there this year. Too bad, too, as I really like giving local shepherds first dibs on my fleece budget. I guess I’ll have to see what MFF has for us.